Reading Republican Oratory Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions

by Gray, Christa; Balbo, Andrea; Marshall, Richard M. A.; Steel, Catherine E. W.

• ISBN13: 9780198788201
• ISBN10: 0198788207
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-04-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Christa Gray, Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading,Andrea Balbo, Lecturer, University of Turin,Richard M. A. Marshall, Lecturer and Research Associate on the 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' project, University of Glasgow,Catherine E. W. Steel, Professor of Classics, University of Glasgow

Christa Gray has been a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading since January 2016 and was previously a Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators' at the University of Glasgow. She will be on research leave at the Humboldt University in Berlin until 2018 as a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, working on an edition of Jerome's Vita Hilarionis.

Andrea Balbo is a Lecturer at the University of Turin and also teaches Latin language and literature at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His research interests include Roman oratory and rhetoric, declamation, late antique Latin literature, digital humanities, and the reception of Classics in modern literatures. He is currently preparing, with Catherine Schneider, a critical edition of Calpurnius, and an edition for Teubner of the fragmentary oratory of the Imperial period.

Richard Marshall is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Research Associate on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. His research interests include the Republican polymath Varro, the history of the book, and the transmission of classical literature. He is currently preparing a monograph on the reception of Varro in Late Antiquity.

Catherine Steel is Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow, where she is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 'Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators'. Her research centres on the Roman Republic, with a particular focus on political history and oratory. Among her recent publications are The End of the Roman Republic, 146-44 BC: Conquest and Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Cicero (Cambridge UP, 2013).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
0. Introduction
A: TRANSMISSION
i. Republican Rome
1. Roman Orators between Greece and Rome: The Case of Cato the Elder, L. Crassus, and M. Antonius, Alexandra Eckert
2. Republican Satire in the Dock: Forensic Rhetoric in Lucilius, Ian Goh
3. Plautus and the Tone of Roman Diplomacy of Intervention, Elena Torregaray Pagola
4. The Eloquence of Publius Sulpicius Rufus and Gaius Aurelius Cotta in Cicero's Brutus, Alfredo Casamento
ii. Imperial Rome
5. The Fragments of Republican Orators in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria, Amedeo Raschieri
6. Vis and Seruitus: The Dark Side of Republican Oratory in Valerius Maximus, S. J. Lawrence
7. Reconstructing Republican Oratory in Cassius Dio's Roman History, Christopher Burden-Strevens
8. Netting the Wolf-Fish: Gaius Titius in Macrobius and Cicero, John Dugan
B: RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FRAGMENTS AND THEIR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS
i. Reconstructions in the Literal Sense
9. Gaius Titius, Orator and Poeta. (Cic. Brut. 167 and Macrob. Sat. 3.16.4-16), Alberto Cavarzere
10. Clodius' Contio de haruspicum responsis, Anthony Corbeill
11. Certain gentlemen say . . .': Cicero, Cato, and the Debate on the Validity of Clodius' Laws, Kit Morrell
ii. Oratorical Performance
12. The Politics of Pronuntiatio: The Rhetorica ad Herennium and Delivery in the Early First Century BC, Jennifer Hilder
13. Traces of Actio in Fragmentary Roman Orators, Andrea Balbo
14. I Said, He Said: Fragments of Informal Conversations and the Grey Zones of Public Speech in the Late Roman Republic, Cristina Rosillo-Lopez
iii. Gender in Fragmentary Oratory
15. Of Fragments and Feelings: Roman Funeral Oratory Revisited, Hans Beck
16. Fragments of Epideictic Oratory: The Exemplary Case of the Laudatio Funebris for Women, Cristina Pepe
17. Women from the Rostra: Fulvia and the Pro Milone, Bill Gladhill
18. Oratorum Romanarum Fragmenta Liberae Rei Publicae: The Letter of Cornelia, Mater Gracchorum, and the Speeches of her Father and Son, Judith P. Hallett
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index